The Legal Regime of the Railway Passenger Carrier in the Romanian Legislation
The Legal Regime of the Railway Passenger Carrier in the Romanian Legislation

Summary/Abstract: Rail and passenger transport is a segment of transport that benefits, in our legal system, from a regulation that covers a very wide range of legal issues. It is an exhaustive regulation, which represents a benchmark for other transport segments that have not been reserved a treatment at such a wide legislative level. In many cases, the regulation of the railway area, of transport of goods or people, brings clarifications or explains a series of notions and concepts used in other types of transport which, although they use them, do not define them. In Romania, public railway transport is a strategic sector of national interest and an essential public service for society. Rail passenger transport has, according to the law, the character of public passenger transport. The Ministry of Transport and other competent authorities shall act in the field of public passenger transport by rail to ensure the provision of services of general interest and shall conclude public service contracts with railway undertakings thereby establishing public service obligations of national interest in order to provide adequate transport services. Public railway transports are performed only on the basis of a transport contract, and the transport contract is concluded and executed under the conditions of the regulations of the Romanian Civil Code, of the Regulation on Romanian railway transport, respectively the provisions of Government Ordinance no. 7/2005 and of the international agreements and conventions to which Romania has acceded.

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